Equally as popular, judging by the retweets, was the announcement that it’s already possible to use DNA to store your videos, raising the possibility that hard drives will soon be rather easy to keep about your own person. Millions found that idea so curious it’s still trending on Twitter.

As is the buzz around Sci-fi game Ingress from Google. It blurs movie plots with virtual and actual realities, asking people to take part in a mobile game that occurs in the real world. Laser fights in Soho anyone? The fact that the search giant, quite separately, is getting into the clairvoyancy business didn’t go unnoticed either.

But if you need something more to chew on, have a think about the idea that corporates don’t need headcounts within departments. Can there be an effective internal marketplace for talent that finds its own equilibrium in terms of efficient use of resource? Sounds far-fetched but a convincing argument can be made.